David,
This is a serious question and needs serious discussion. I will give a more
considered view later. A few quick points.
- If someone can see it they can steal it
- If they steal it I think the main issues are
- Will they pretend to be you
- or pretend to be the author
- Try and spoof your site to trap visitors who trust you
- However you hide buttons etc... someone with tiddlywiki skills will
find it easier to steal than others
- In fact they just need a link to your wiki and right-click download
and the get the whole wiki.
- There is plenty you can do to make it less than straightforward for
people to realise its theft is easy
- But I think you would be better on focusing on the value to your
audience (personal view)
- It is quite easy to leave your mark through out the wiki, making it a
chore for someone to hide your authorship
- It is possible to tie it into analytics and be able to identify where
it is re-published if they do not defeat it
- Just like the plugins I recommend you put a licence upfront that
spells out people rights to the information on your site, then at least
they know what is right or wrong and will hopefully feel a social
obligation as a result
Opinion
- The concept of copyright has a fatal flaw - if someone can read it
they have a copy
- Security is always a matter of degree, the higher the security the
functionality tends to diminish
- It we can consider the act of publishing as "setting the information
free" but as a reader as it "being granted the right to read only" unless
you seek permission to do otherwise, then we would all be a bit more
realistic.
Regards
Tony
On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 11:24:27 PM UTC+10, David Gifford wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am exploring going back to publishing TiddlyWikis online, rather than
> exporting and publishing static htmls from tiddlers.
>
> One issue I need to confront, though, is the possibility that someone
> could download one of my TiddlyWikis, add malicious content (either text
> that I would not approve of, or a virus or somesuch), and publish it with
> my name on it elsewhere in a way that makes people think it is from me.
>
> I would like community feedback on what measures I might take to prevent
> that: hiding the save/download button when the file is online, etc? Or any
> other relevant feedback on this issue.
>
> Thanks and blessings, Dave
>
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